Hired as customer service reps, these freelancers were instead tasked with luring in the lonely and lovestruck through a network of dating and hookup sites.
:agony-immense:
And I thought those camgirl profiles on Tinder were bad
I haven't been on the meetup apps since COVID, and I've never used the pay-to-chat sites, but I remember like 5 times in a row I matched with cleverly designed fakes. people who had realistic profiles and could talk, but would suddenly try to move the conversation to some pay-to-chat / age verification site that needed my CC numbers.
I'm sure I'm in the demo for easily duped tech illiterate, because I'm old. but it really started to seem like that entire world of the internet... the dating/hookup/lonely apps is like +90% scams.
I eventually realized the experience of using those apps was making me feel more isolated than just being single.
Online dating used to be decent when it was a new concept, even if controversial because it was new.
The thought terminating cliche of "everything is equally as good and bad as it has always been, old people in ancient times complained about young people amirite" :very-intelligent: that sometimes pops up here blissfully ignores that some things do get worse after they are introduced, in this case entirely for profit reasons under capitalism.
I haven't been on the meetup apps since COVID, and I've never used the pay-to-chat sites, but I remember like 5 times in a row I matched with cleverly designed fakes. people who had realistic profiles and could talk, but would suddenly try to move the conversation to some pay-to-chat / age verification site that needed my CC numbers.
I'm sure I'm in the demo for easily duped tech illiterate, because I'm old. but it really started to seem like that entire world of the internet... the dating/hookup/lonely apps is like +90% scams.
I eventually realized the experience of using those apps was making me feel more isolated than just being single.
Online dating used to be decent when it was a new concept, even if controversial because it was new.
The thought terminating cliche of "everything is equally as good and bad as it has always been, old people in ancient times complained about young people amirite" :very-intelligent: that sometimes pops up here blissfully ignores that some things do get worse after they are introduced, in this case entirely for profit reasons under capitalism.